About Me
Built from curiosity
I learned engineering long before it became my profession.
I grew up building alongside my father, an inventor and engineer. Our household was full of machinery, materials, unfinished experiments, and ideas waiting to become real.
He taught me how to plan a project, source materials, solve problems with the tools available, and work across soldering, welding, machining, vacuum forming, and woodworking. More importantly, he taught me not to be intimidated by something I did not yet understand.
That became the foundation of how I approach engineering today.
Turning instinct into a direction
FIRST Robotics gave that instinct somewhere to go. As Mechanical and Electrical Lead for Team 1332, I discovered how much I enjoyed the full rhythm of a technical project: imagining a mechanism, building it under real constraints, troubleshooting what failed, and working with a team toward a shared deadline.
I earned my Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2017 while balancing coursework with internships, hands-on technical work, a full-time job, and humanitarian engineering initiatives.
From imagination to production
My mind works spatially. SolidWorks allows me to take an idea I can see internally and develop it into a detailed system that other people can review, manufacture, assemble, and improve.
But the CAD model is only part of the job.
I stay involved through prototyping, testing, supplier collaboration, assembly, quality problems, and production changes. I create the drawings, BOMs, tolerance requirements, and documentation needed to make the design repeatable rather than dependent on the person who originally built it.
Concept development | SolidWorks | Prototyping | DFM and DFA | Electromechanical integration | Suppliers | Production release
Curiosity is the through line
I am still a compulsive builder outside work. I take on household projects, work under the hood of a car, investigate how things function, and bring imaginative ideas to life whenever I can.
That breadth has taught me something important: my strength is not walking into every project with all the answers. It is asking the questions that expose the real constraints, finding the knowledge or expertise the problem requires, and connecting the pieces into a practical solution.
I am comfortable leading when a project needs direction, collaborating across disciplines, and changing course when physical evidence shows that the first approach is not working.
The problems I want to solve
My interests span aerospace, sustainable energy, robotics, automation, optomechanics, and complex electromechanical products. The industry matters less to me than the nature of the challenge.
I want to work on useful problems with people who care about making things better: products worth developing, systems worth improving, and ideas that can create meaningful impact when someone takes responsibility for making them real.